Author's Note: Sorry about what happened with my Calm Before The Storm chapter, my friend thought it would be funny to delete it, my bad anyway here is chapter 3.
DISCLAIMER: I do not own Percy Jackson or Avengers or Agents of Shield and any other Marvel Characters that will appear in the future.
FLASHBACK
The Van was practically tangible as nine ADHD demigods (Annabeth was driving) sat impatiently, each clutching their weapons tightly. Every one of them was a seasoned veteran but the nerves never did go away. No one spoke, nothing needed to be said. A grate slid back, revealing the front cab of the van. Annabeth told them that they were ten minutes out.
"I can see smoke. We're late." She said, and Percy's grip on his pen-sword tightened until his knuckles were white. That was HIS city they attacking. The only thing that kept Percy remotely calm was the fact that Sally and Paul were out of town, and would be for many more days.
Percy stood, putting a hand to the wall as he did so to steady himself in the van's swaying.
"I know you guys don't want to hear my pre-battle speech. Zeus knows, most of you have heard it too many times. Just remember that we have to do this discretely. We can't make anyone suspicious. No big displays of power- not unless you're desperate.
"Don't get carried away. Be smart. And remember that we always have each other's backs. Right? I'm glad that I'm fighting with you guys. I wouldn't rather it be anyone else." Percy looked to his friend's faces, meeting each of their gazes. These people were his family. He had gone through so much with them. Alex, Katie, Jason and Piper, Nico and even Clarisse, stared back at him solemnly.
"We fight as a family, no matter what." Piper spoke up, and Jason squeezed her hand. Clarisse grunted the affirmative, which Percy figured was all they were going to get.
"Does anyone else get a sense of déjà vu here?" Jason asked, earning another round of chuckles the two-timers. Percy smiled. They were going to be alright.
Piper couldn't sleep, every time she tried she would remember the argument she had with her dad. Well argument was a loose term, it was more like a screaming match, and even hedge had left the room. She had Nico shadow travel her to California from New York to check up on her dad. She couldn't remember how the argument started but when she saw her dad in the living room he was watching a New York senator who was bad mouthing the Avengers.
"These so called Heroes, have to be held responsible for the city, this was their fight."
"Damages to the City of New York have totaled upwards to $160 Billion dollars."
"These aren't heroes they are just freaks and people who think that by wearing a costume and a mask that they don't have to deal with the damages done to the city.
"The Hulk is a monster."
"That wasn't Thor, there's only one god."
She tried so hard to forget the argument they had, but only bits were gone.
"Piper how can you support these people, it wasn't their job to fight these creatures, and look at the damages they have done to New York."
"Dad the Hulk is a hero, everyone in New York is grateful."
"How can you say that Piper we saw what he did to that, that thing in Harlem, and if he isn't a monster which I highly doubt, then why was the army chasing him all over the world?" Her dad asked her back angrily.
"What are you getting so upset for? Can't handle the fact that monsters, Aliens and superhumans are real?" Piper snapped as she watched her dad pull out his cell phone.
'What are you doing?" She asked with a slight tone of worry in her voice.
"I'm calling your school once I'm done this conversation you are going to school in Europe." He said.
"Excuse me, Europe?" Piper said in disbelief.
"If you think I'm letting you stay in New York where another invasion can happen now that Tony Stark has made that eye sore tower of his a place where his gang can live, you have another thing coming."
Piper's eyes nearly left her head when he said that.
"You can't be serious." She said as she walked over and grabbed his phone.
"Piper I'm your father and I'm doing what is best for you, I'm keeping you safe." Her dad said with a strict tone of voice.
"Oh yeah protecting me by sending me somewhere else, since that plan has worked out so far." She said with a hint of venom.
"Who do you think you are, I'm the adult here and as long as you live under my roof you will live under my rules." He said finally.
"Well then maybe I shouldn't live here anymore."
That was a week ago. She still hadn't talked to her dad at all, she had looked at her phone considering calling him, but then she remembered the look he had on his face as he said "Live under my roof live by my rules." Then she would tuck it under her bed. She tried even harder to forget the even bigger argument that her and her friends had with the Olympians. After the invasion they had been summoned to Olympus, which they were half an hour late because of the damage done to grand central station. When they had arrived they looked at all 12 Olympians, the only ones who looked the least bit to see them were Poseidon and Aphrodite. Then Zeus started rambling about how what they did was reckless and how they went against their parents by fighting the Aliens.
"Of all the things I have seen, against orders." He yelled.
"That Thor, who does he think he is?" Ares mumbled.
"Oh lighten up Ares; you and Zeus don't like Thor because he has bested both of you in a fight." Hephaestus snapped.
"Why are you blaming Thor, it was Loki who sent those creatures." Poseidon said.
"You kids could have been discovered, the mist has practically been destroyed with your help." Hera said.
"Don't stay so mad at us Piper." She heard a familiar voice say, she turned around and she saw her mother sitting on a chair doing her toenails.
"Hello mother." Piper said in a not so kindly voice. To her surprise, Aphrodite had a look of sadness on her face.
"I guess I deserved that." She said sadly. Piper went and sat near her mother on the bed.
"So what do you need, lost your hairbrush, Hephaestus took your coverup-"
"I'm sorry." She said.
Piper was almost be even more sarcastic when she stopped and brain nearly fizzled out with her mom saying two words.
"Sorry for what?" She asked skeptically.
"Sorry for chewing you all out like that, I guess when we saw you all fighting the invasion, a kind of fear hit all of us."
Piper wasn't sure if she wanted to know what her mother meant by that but she asked anyway.
"A fear of what?"
"When we saw you all fighting those chitari, most of us thought that if you kept fighting every threat that showed its ugly head, we feared we wouldn't you wouldn't have any time for us, that you would forget that we need you to."
Piper thought over what she was just told, at first it sounded like it didn't make any sense, then she thought of it in a different way. She thought of it as when she was a little kid and how she would get upset when her dad would go on dates. She was mad because she felt as though she wasn't in the center of her dad's universe anymore. She then understood how Zeus and the Olympians felt, then she remembered when Jason told her and Leo his conversation with Hera about the gods will always need their children.
"So that's why Zeus was acting so mean to us, he had realized that we had our own lives to live."
Aphrodite smiled.
"I can't stay long, but remember this Piper, the world will no longer be the same."
She then woke up in the her desk in the apartment in New York she was sharing with Jason. She got up and found him watching TV. She snuck up and gave him a kiss on the cheek.
"How's you college essay coming along?" He asked.
"Great a whole 3 pages done, Ms Frost is such a pain, I mean we just had to do an essay a week ago. I heard some people call her "The White Queen" now I can understand why, I just don't understand why she has to always wear white all the time, she reminds me of Khione. She turned and then she saw the look of worry on his face.
"What's wrong." She asked with a small tone of worry in her voice Jason pointed to the tv screen, it had a big headline on the bottom.
"Mysterious Vigilantes and super humans appearing all over the country."
Piper sat down next to him as he turned it up. It was a news report that featured people wearing strange costumes. There were two people arguing about them. One of them was David Thompson who had a Green Checkmark screen behind him. The other was the owner of The Daily Bugle J Jonah Jameson.
"These freaks should just go away, look at this, a former marine wearing a giant white skull going all around the country being judge, jury, and executioner, a man dressed as a devil going through the streets of San Francisco, not to mention there is that Spiderman freak, people are now thinking as long as they are wearing tights, they can just throw the justice system out the window, you don't have to go outside the law to find justice. Look at what that rich moron Tony Stark is doing to today's youth, everywhere I walk around New York I see people praising these so called heroes." Jonah said angriliy.
"Alright easy Jonah we do not want you popping a blood vessel on live tv." The news reporter said.
"That Jonah on his view on all these new superhumans. Now David as you stated previously, that you are for these superhumans and vigilanties like "The Spider". David what about due process, what about civil rights?" She asked him.
"Betty last year when Thor showed up in New Mexico, the world learned that not only are we not alone, but we are hopelessly outgunned, if it wasn't for the Avengers New York and possibly the world would have been destroyed by those monsters, or enslaved by Loki, also in response to all these people now showing up America lives in the shadow of crime, mob bosses running free, all these big companies getting away with polluting our environment, and they are getting away with it, but because of the these vigilantes we are now reminded that the power to do good for the world is in our hands. That we no longer have to worry about the people with all the money wrecking this once great country."
Jason muted the TV.
"What are you doing?" Piper asked him with a slight look of worry in her voice. He was staring out the window.
"When I was trying to sleep, I heard the sound of women trying not to be raped, 4 drug deals gone wrong and a gang war." He said.
"It's New York Jason, the city that never sleeps." She said trying to cheer up the mood because she has a slight hint of what was coming.
"I'm just saying that did you ever think that maybe we all could do more, I'm sick of walking through the city seeing all the violence and crime that is still going on and yet knowing that I have the power to maybe stop it." He said as he sat back on the couch.
"So what you want to get a costume, a mask and go all around the city be a super hero?" Piper asked in a slight surprise.
"I don't know maybe, you remember what we were all told after the invasion, I just think that I don't know but after the whole thing with Gaia, that maybe we all deserve some credit, even if we have to hide behind masks."
Piper was about to tell him how crazy and stupid that idea sounded when there was a knock on their door. Reluctantly she went to open it. When she did she had two adults staring right back at her. One was a woman that looked to be Eastern European in appearance, long red hair with a Kevlar combat suit that fitted her quite well, complete with a combat belt and holsters for guns on her thighs and ankles, and some kind of firing mechanisms on her wrists. The other was a mean with dirty brown hair and blue eyes, but on his back was a set of arrows each with different heads, he was wearing a purple and black tight uniform.
"Is this the home of Jason Grace?" The woman asked.
Author's note: PHEW you all have no idea how long this took to write. Also I hope you guys noticed the other marvel characters I put in this. If you do please understand why I had to, I wanted to do what FrivolousThoughts is doing in his or her story Unnoticeable. *Which BTW I highly recommend it's awesome.* With more characters I can get more done and do bigger stories, which I hope will be better for you all. My second point is that I'm sorry that most of this was in Piper's POV, I'm not really a big fan of her in the series, but I think IF done right then maybe she could be a good character, also why this chapter is so much in her POV, is because she is somewhat the closest to a superhero out of all of the main demigods, she keeps half her life a secret from her family. Also for people who don't understand why the gods are being to childish about them going off to fight the aliens, I think that maybe that they don't like the fact that the demigods have their own lives to live. Also quick question do you guys think if or when Percy becomes a super hero, do you think his mom will approve. Or disapprove because she thinks he already puts his life in too much danger as a demigod? You guys be the judge.
